Australian Federal Government selected FluroSat for Accelerating Commercialisation case study

FluroSat received a $793,737 Accelerating Commercialisation Grant under the Entrepreneurs’ Programme. Commercialisation Adviser Topaz Conway provided crucial strategic advice and assistance, to tackle both big and everyday business challenges.

Flurosat has developed a platform that analyses images from aerial photography and satellites to determine the stress on plants (particularly crops). This information is then provided to agronomists and farmers to assist them to respond to the needs of crops, improving yields. The Accelerating Commercialisation grant allowed them to fast track their trials and development.

Before they head to the farm, growers know precisely where to look for issues and how to spend their time most effectively.

Anastasia Volkova, Founder and CEO, FluroSat

With adaptive, accurate and actionable analytics, crop growers are able to make better-informed decisions to drive business profitability.

Accessible from PCs, smartphones or tablets, FluroSense visually highlights stress areas for growers. Farmers and businesses are able to address water and nutrient stress in real time by reducing fertiliser and water waste, and improving their crop yields. Using FluroSense can help improve agricultural productivity by increasing crop yields by 10-25 per cent and reducing fertiliser use by 30 per cent.

Outcomes

FluroSat have grown from 5 staff to 25 staff, and have recently acquired the ProductionWise platform from Grain Growers Limited.

Using its FluroSense technology, the business has ground-truthed over 20,000 hectares of crops.

Since releasing the FluroSense decision support platform in August 2018, the business has raised an additional $1,000,000 and from investors such as CSIRO Main Sequence fund.